Assignment 5
I believe that Susan
Orlean composed this article to create awareness of what taxidermy actually is
and to shed light to the stereo typical thoughts of taxidermy.
Orlean would have hoped her readers would feel like
taxidermy is a natural art not mean and cruel like some believe, and that the
taxidermist themselves would not be looked at as weird and cruel as well. You
can see this in some of the quotes for example “I love deer one of the
champions in the whitetail division said to me there my babies”. This quote is
very controversial but I believe that Orlean was leaning towards the side the
taxidermist respect for the animals.
While I was reading Life Like I felt like it was an
interesting paper kind of had me puzzled in some part. I personally knew what
taxidermy is and I do not find it weird at all I find normal and respectful for
the animals. I think Orlean wanted me to feel like that, she wanted me to find
out new stuff on taxidermy and to show different perspective on how people are
only trying to respect the animals.
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